RUSH, Benjamin, a Delegate from Pennsylvania; born in Byberry Township, near
Philadelphia, Pa., January 4, 1746; educated under private tutors and at a
private school in Nottingham, Md.; was graduated from Princeton College in
1760; studied medicine in Philadelphia, Edinburgh, London, and Paris, and
commenced practice in Philadelphia in August 1769; held several professorships
in the Philadelphia Medical College; Member of the Continental Congress in 1776
and 1777; a signer of the Declaration of Independence; entered the
Revolutionary Army as surgeon general of the Middle Department in April 1777;
made physician general in July 1777; resigned in February 1778; resumed the
practice of medicine; delegate to the Pennsylvania ratification convention,
1787; founder of the Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia; president of the
Philadelphia Medical Society; vice president and one of the founders of the
Philadelphia Bible Society; one of the founders of Dickinson College at
Carlisle, Pa.; assisted in the establishment of the Philadelphia dispensary in
1786; treasurer of the United States Mint at Philadelphia from 1799 until his
death in that city April 19, 1813; interment in Christ Church Burying Ground.